Bremer Criticizes Troop Levels (washingtonpost.com)

Bremer Criticizes Troop Levels (washingtonpost.com): "'We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness,' he said yesterday in a speech at an insurance conference in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. 'We never had enough troops on the ground.'
Bremer's comments were striking because they echoed contentions of many administration critics, including Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry, who argue that the U.S. government failed to plan adequately to maintain security in Iraq after the invasion. "